Pippin BarrInterview
Game maker, writer, teacher
Adapted from Pippin Barr's interview on Uses This, published 7 February 2012. The kit is drawn from their answers and each reason is an excerpt, lightly edited. Shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Read the full interview ↗
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My digital life revolves around my 13" MacBook Pro from the 2011 generation.
The other device I use a lot is my iPod Touch, which serves as my iPhone surrogate except with the delightful quality of not being a phone.
For an actual phone I have a semi-ancient Sony Ericsson K800i that is frequently either not on my person, is in silent mode, or is not charged.
For drawing I use a Wacom Bamboo Pen 15x9cm tablet.
Productivity
I have an oscillating love-disinterest relationship with a piece of software called DevonTHINK which I use to store the many PDFs and other documents I'm reading and thinking about.
Notes
Coding & Development
Earlier this year I developed more in Processing and its associated libraries because that's the language I teach our budding designers at the university.
Design
Alongside the drawing tools I make fairly light use of Photoshop CS3.
Media
Other
For support applications I've tended to draw the more "pixel art" style graphics in Pixen because it's one of the only usable pixel-art focused tools for Mac and can generate animation sprite sheets, though it has its flaws.
I draw more "line oriented" stuff like my comics in Manga Studio which has great support for different pen strokes and a host of other features I don't understand.